Prior to his death, the courageous German churchman Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said: “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” To fortify the stranglehold of Germany’s anti-Semitic laws, Nazi law called for the death penalty to those found protecting or giving aid to the Jewish people. Rev. Bonhoeffer chose the path of civil disobedience in resistance to these nefarious laws and was summarily hung for his act of bravery. His soul and conscience would give him no peace if he remained silent in the face of such […]

Homeless Jesus How fitting and proper it is to welcome the “Homeless Jesus” statue to Buffalo, New York. While this may serve to convey a public awareness to the plight of the homeless, I see another very relevant connection for this fine piece of art. One can look to the very brief moment when Jesus was born in the environs of Bethlehem, but the real homelessness transpired when the people of Jesus, the Jewish people, were driven from their ancestral home by the Romans in 70 A.D. In 1948, in the aftermath of the Shoah, the world witnessed the miraculous […]